home-manager: enable nix run for activationPackage #1828
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Symlink $out/activate to $out/bin/home-manager-generation in activationPackage, so you can use nix run to build a generation inside of a flake and then directly activate it.
berbiche
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Mar 1, 2021
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| ln -s $out/activate $out/bin/home-manager-generation | |||
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| ln -s $out/activate $out/bin/home-manager-generation | |
| ln -s $out/activate $out/bin/activate |
To have a similar API to NixOS.
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When I tested it, nix run only tries to run $out/bin/<package-name> (that's why nix run nixpkgs#neovim doesn't work). So if the symlink is moved to a different location you can't run it automatically anymore.
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see NixOS/nix#4498
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Right, I forgot about this peculiarity of nix run. It's good to know meta.mainProgram exists now.
I usually always do nix shell nixpkgs#something -c some-program
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Description
Adds a symlink from
$out/activateto$out/bin/home-manager-generationin the home-manager-generation activationPackage.This makes it possible for people who put their home-manager configuration in a flake (not as a part of a NixOS configuration)
to update their home with:
nix run flake#homeMangerConfigurations.<name>.activationPackageInstead of with
nix build <stuff> && ./result/activatewhich is more cumbersome, and pollutes yourgcroots/autowith stray symlinks to your current folder.Checklist
Change is backwards compatible.
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